Sale & Marketing Department

Sale and marketing department is responsible for the supply and sales of the company’s products in the domestic and international markets, policy making with respect to sales and marketing affairs of the company in line with the company’s goals of attaining the forecasted revenues, providing long-, mid- and long-term plans for sales, policy making with respect to business, pricing, and attempting to help the company’s top management in attaining its economic goals.
The following four departments work under the sales and marketing deputy: Domestic Sales, Exports, Product Management, and Sales and Marketing Assistance.

Domestic sales

Marketing and sales of the company’s products in the domestic marketplace, management of the orders placed with the company from the production phase to shipment, dealing with possible customer complaints, gathering information from the market, management of demands and pricing, development of sales markets among other duties of this kind.

Exports

Supply and sales of part of the company’s products in the global marketplace with the following goals:
-Meeting the company’s need for foreign currencies in order to finance expansion projects and purchase of spare parts and raw materials.
-Maintenance and upgrading of the qualitative level of the company’s products
-Creating good reputation and global position for the company

Product management

This department is responsible for the creation of a bilateral relationship between the market needs on one hand and the company’s production capabilities and competencies on the other in order to meet with the customer’s needs in the best way possible and to make appropriate use of the company’s production capacities, developing short-, mid- and long- term sales plans, analyzing prices, determining the costs of additional services, performing research activities in order to maintain sales figures in the competitive market, enabling the company for making timely decisions in facing market crises and fluctuations.

Sales and marketing assistance

Management of product pricing systems as well as business and sales system, formation of the pricing committee, participation in the determination of after-sales service, holding customer admitting committee, management of customers data bank, assisting customers in business terms through provision of services menu on the company’s website, responding to the institutions outside Esfahan's Mobarakeh Steel Company, preparation of various analytical reports and performing activities related to market study, including performing customer surveys in both domestic and international marketplace, identification of domestic and international competitors in the steel making sector, forecasting the product prices and studying the imports of flat steel products for the purpose of clarifying the competitive market, helping managers of the organization to make appropriate decisions, are among the responsibilities of this department.

CE Certificate

CE mark is an EU standard requirement that certifies that the quality of the product is in compliance with the environment, safety and health rules of the consumer as per the directives developed by this purpose.
The affixation of the CE mark on the products consumed by the EU members enables the manufacturer to get confirmed in terms of compliance with requirements inserted in the relevant directives for the distribution of the cargo. It is applied not only to the structural steel products, but also to the machineries, electrical equipment, medical and electromagnetic devices which are to be used in the European Community Area.
Not only this mark is mandatory in the 27 EU members, central European free trade agreement countries in Europe have also mandated that marking in pursuit of joining the EU.
The most important goal of the CE marking is to assure the consumer so the conformity of the products with the requirements mentioned in the EU countries, so obtaining this marking means that the holder can sell its products without limits into the EU countries.
Steel products used in the microstructures of the buildings and in the construction sector such as engineering structures, roads and bridges, mostly in the form of hot-rolled structural products produced under EN 10025-2004 standards. Compliance with the Construction Products Directive (CPD) and winning the CE marking guarantees penetration into the European Union and selling products to be used in these countries, as well as the countries in Europe that require the CE marking. Esfahan's Mobarakeh Steel Company achieved this marking in 2007, following strict assessments made by external assessments on January 11 2008, in order to maintain its share in the strategically important EU market, since any exportation of hot-rolled steel products to the EU members from 2006 on depends on the products’ compliance with the EN 10025-2004 standards in accordance with the CPD directives.

Vision and goals

Enhancing the pioneering position of company in domestic market and continued presence in global markets as a company that pioneers in quality, technology and fulfillment of its nationwide social responsibilities .

Sales & Marketing Department Goals

1.Increasing the export rate of products with high added value from 18,000 to 30,000 tons per year
2.Implementing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategy
3.Increasing customers satisfaction from 79 to 80%
4.Gaining 31,000 billion Rials revenue by selling company's products
5.Improving the performance score of services centers
6.Increasing sales share for special products from 18 to 22%
7.Improving customers satisfaction over in-time delivery from 72 to 80%